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authorMarc Espie <espie@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-05-11 18:44:14 +0000
committerMarc Espie <espie@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-05-11 18:44:14 +0000
commit7847cf8cac3ace56d062c6d1962f2df02d25d329 (patch)
treec860a1a863e5b2697b9daf1ea627279ec05d3ced /lib/libc/locale/mbtowc.3
parent8d8d7a1eeeb3509c69bb27b3d97c04a887175599 (diff)
major abi changes:
* introduce the mbstate_t typedef. impacts gnu libiconv, which has already been taken care of. * Prepare for mb stuff to really exist, replace macro MB_CUR_MAX with an external variable __mb_cur_max (impacts libX11 and various ports). * use mbstate in all the mb <-> wchar functions with state. * add a stub iswctype function allowing some ports to compile. bash and gdiff are missing wcscoll, and need to be told there's no i18n until this is fixed. Discussed and matthieu, otto, millert, kettenis, deraadt. Major libc bump
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+.\" $OpenBSD: mbtowc.3,v 1.1 2005/05/11 18:44:12 espie Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: mbtowc.3,v 1.5 2003/09/08 17:54:31 wiz Exp $
+.\"
+.\" Copyright (c)2002 Citrus Project,
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+.\" are met:
+.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
+.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
+.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
+.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
+.\"
+.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
+.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
+.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
+.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
+.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
+.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
+.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
+.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
+.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
+.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
+.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
+.\"
+.Dd February 3, 2002
+.Dt MBTOWC 3
+.Os
+.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm mbtowc
+.Nd converts a multibyte character to a wide character
+.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Fd #include <stdlib.h>
+.Ft int
+.Fn mbtowc "wchar_t * restrict pwc" "const char * restrict s" "size_t n"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Fn mbtowc
+usually converts the multibyte character pointed to by
+.Fa s
+to a wide character, and stores it in the wchar_t object pointed to by
+.Fa pwc
+if
+.Fa pwc
+is non-null and
+.Fa s
+points to a valid character.
+This function may inspect at most n bytes of the array beginning from
+.Fa s .
+.Pp
+In state-dependent encodings,
+.Fa s
+may point to the special sequence bytes to change the shift-state.
+Although such sequence bytes correspond to no individual
+wide-character code,
+.Fn mbtowc
+changes its own state by the sequence bytes and treats them
+as if they are a part of the subsequence multibyte character.
+.Pp
+Unlike
+.Xr mbrtowc 3 ,
+the first
+.Fa n
+bytes pointed to by
+.Fa s
+need to form an entire multibyte character.
+Otherwise, this function causes an error.
+.Pp
+Calling any other functions in
+.Em libc
+never change the internal
+state of the
+.Fn mbtowc ,
+except for calling
+.Xr setlocale 3
+with the
+.Dv LC_CTYPE
+category changed to that of the current locale.
+Such
+.Xr setlocale 3
+calls cause the internal state of this function to be indeterminate.
+.Pp
+The behaviour of
+.Fn mbtowc
+is affected by the
+.Dv LC_CTYPE
+category of the current locale.
+.Pp
+These are the special cases:
+.Bl -tag -width 012345678901
+.It s == NULL
+.Fn mbtowc
+initializes its own internal state to an initial state, and
+determines whether the current encoding is state-dependent.
+This function returns 0 if the encoding is state-independent,
+otherwise non-zero.
+In this case,
+.Fa pwc
+is completely ignored.
+.It pwc == NULL
+.Fn mbtowc
+executes the conversion as if
+.Fa pwc
+is non-null, but a result of the conversion is discarded.
+.It n == 0
+In this case,
+the first
+.Fa n
+bytes of the array pointed to by
+.Fa s
+never form a complete character.
+Thus, the
+.Fn mbtowc
+always fails.
+.El
+.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+.Sh RETURN VALUES
+Normally,
+.Fn mbtowc
+returns:
+.Bl -tag -width 012345678901
+.It 0
+.Fa s
+points to a null byte
+.Pq Sq \e0 .
+.It positive
+Number of bytes for the valid multibyte character pointed to by
+.Fa s .
+There are no cases where the value returned is greater than
+the value of the
+.Dv MB_CUR_MAX
+macro.
+.It -1
+.Fa s
+points to an invalid or an incomplete multibyte character.
+The
+.Fn mbtowc
+also sets errno to indicate the error.
+.El
+.Pp
+When
+.Fa s
+is equal to NULL,
+.Fn mbtowc
+returns:
+.Bl -tag -width 0123456789
+.It 0
+The current encoding is state-independent.
+.It non-zero
+The current encoding is state-dependent.
+.El
+.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+.Sh ERRORS
+.Fn mbtowc
+may cause an error in the following cases:
+.Bl -tag -width Er
+.It Bq Er EILSEQ
+.Fa s
+points to an invalid or incomplete multibyte character.
+.El
+.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr mblen 3 ,
+.Xr mbrtowc 3 ,
+.Xr setlocale 3
+.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------------
+.Sh STANDARDS
+The
+.Fn mbtowc
+function conforms to
+.St -ansiC .
+The restrict qualifier is added at
+.\" .St -isoC99 .
+ISO/IEC 9899/1999
+.Pq Dq ISO C99 .